Can anyone recommend a nice market open on weekdays where I can find some pain francaise, fruits, etc. to eat on a picnic in a park that is nearby the market? Also, do I need to bring my own corkscrew from home to open a bottle of wine I buy to bring on the picnic with us, or do the wine stores sell those? They should, right? If the weather is nice I%26#39;d love to maybe do a smaller museum in the morning, head to a nice market, then to a park for a picnic lunch one day. I want to plan it so that the museum, market and park are all in the same basic area - or at least walkable - we don%26#39;t mind long walks. Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks!
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You%26#39;ll find the complete list of Paris markets on the following URL
paris.fr/portail/…
Having said that, no need to go to such lengths to buy a %26quot;pain francaise%26quot; and fruit, any boulangerie by definition sells %26quot;pain français%26quot;, and fruit can be bought at a %26quot;primeur%26quot;. Corkscrews are available in any supermarket, or even corner shop.
As for the picnic issue, be careful: it is true that is more and more done, but until very recently winos were the only ones to drink wine in public away from a café or restaurant. The bench thing for instance is a definite no no. You%26#39;ll be safe by choosing the lawns where many tourists congregate, such as Invalides or... well, that%26#39;s pretty much it!
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If you buy a corkscrew make sure it is a good one. We had to buy 2 while we were there because the first was so flimsy it broke in the cork. If you have a good one from home throw it in your suit case not carry on bag.
Place des Vosage is nice for a picnic and the Musee Carnavalet, Musee Picasso, Musee del%26#39;Histoire de France, Musee d%26#39;Art et d%26#39;Histoire du Judisme and Victor Hugo%26#39;s mansion are all close by.
The Bastille market is very active on Sunday but I%26#39;m not sure of during the week maybe someone else knows?
Have fun,
Deb
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The most beautiful, fully-ripe and wonderfully ready to eat fruit in the city can be found at %26quot;Palais du Fruit%26quot;
http://paris.2.evous.fr/paris.php?article5
at 74 Rue Montorgueil in the 2nd Arr. north of the Eglise St-Eustache. Almost directly across the street is %26quot;Storer%26quot;, a famous and award winning Boulangerie-Patisserie that bakes excellent baguettes among other things. I think rue Montorgueil is one of the best market streets in the city and you%26#39;ll find dozens of food shops and supermarkets all on a single street. We do much of our weekly shopping there.
For nearby parks, there is the Palais Royale just a few blocks west. Beautiful fountains, completely isolated from street noise, beautiful surroundings.
There%26#39;s also the south-end of park above the Forum des Halles which is very nice in the daytime and only a block from rue Montorgueil. You may hear some disagreement on the latter but it really is just fine and very convenient.
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If you cannot find a market near where you are staying /wandering., Monoprix (supermarket) have a very good selection of grocery items, wine (reasonable) and a bakery section.
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Marley - a great question. I going next month and trying to figure out where best to go (without getting pestered by tramps or moved on the police!) and where to get some great food! I%26#39;ve just bought a small picnic rug with waterproof bottom so I can roll it into a day sack and just hope the weather is ince so we can both find a great spot and enjoy ourselves!
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Hi Marley
I am not sure if this is the Bastille market referred to earlier but at Place d%26#39;Aligre there is a covered market hall with great cheese shops, shops with pate and terrines etc as well as meat and fish etc and outside in the street there are fruit and vegetable stalls. I went there on a weekday in the latish morning and it was open. I am not sure if it is open later in the afternoon. I didn%26#39;t see the bric a brac type stalls that day which I believe appear at least on weekends but I was only interested in food shopping. I bought some wonderful cepes mushrooms at one of the outside stalls.
Place Maubert near the Seine in the 5th has a market on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings. On Saturdays in particular it was mainly food stalls but on Tuesdays it seemed to have more stalls with clothes, table cloths etc. The shops in Place Maubert are good too if you happen to be in that area when you decide to buy picnic food. There is a fruit %26amp; vegetable shop which is fine but I would buy from one of the market stalls if the market is there that day. There is also a good patisserie and a cheese shop and a decent wine shop. Some of these shops were often closed for a few hours about lunchtime and reopened later but I was there in October so perhaps they don%26#39;t close for as long at other times of year.
I am not sure where you are staying? Metromole might know whether you would be permitted to have a picnic on the grass in the Jardin des Plantes or in the outdoor sculpture museum on the Seine across the road from the northern side of the Jardin des Plantes. If it is permitted I think either would be a great place to stop if you were in the 5th near the Seine.
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I am curious about the comment about %26#39;benches%26#39; -- our experience has been that there is no problem eating on a bench in a park but that most parks do not allow people to sit on the grass
We don%26#39;t tend to drink wine on such picnics however -- so perhaps it is a drinking in public issue?
there are parks everywhere in Paris and lots of park seating -- we have seen people eating in all of these parks from Batignoles to Luxembourg to Monceau etc -- but the spots of grass where people can sit are few (and we have observed park police giving tickets to bicyclists -- they pick on the little old ladies and tourists on fold bikes of course, and not the young men zipping through on regular bikes -- because presumably they are easier to catch -- and have observed park police shoo people off lawns)
supplies are easy to come by as there are bakeries, greengrocers everywhere and cheese shops are fairly common --
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Adele,
Out of curiosity I ask this question. What about on Pont des Arts where so many Parisian picnic in the evening? Is it looked down on to have wine? I ask because it came up in one of the questions I asked regarding wine and the advice was to pick up a nice bottle of wine and a picnic and enjoy an evening people watching on Pont des Arts. We did drink wine at our picnic at Place des Vosage, I kept the bottle in the picnic basket. We enjoyed it but I%26#39;m not sure if others had wine as well.
Thanks,
deb
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Adele, there are actually very real %26quot;open bottle%26quot; laws that the mayor of Paris has passed to try to reduce public drinking but they are very selectively enforced. The average picnicker probably won%26#39;t encounter them unless they are clearly drunk and/or publically offensive but they are law nonetheless.
marly, the law is clear, it%26#39;s illegal to have an open bottle of any alcoholic beverage in a public park.
The reality is; be discreet and you%26#39;ll be treated discreetly by the police. We%26#39;ve been approached by police on picnics asking us to %26quot;please hide the wine bottle%26quot;, followed by a polite %26quot;bon appetit%26quot; as they moved on. Just be aware that it is technically against the law.
That said, we always have wine on a picnic.
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